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...case in point is Henriette-Lucy Dillon, the Marquise de La Tour du Pin. On the first Bastille Day, this remarkable noblewoman was 19 and an apprentice lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoinette. Her husband was son of the Minister for War. She had grown up in a summer chateau that numbered 25 guest rooms...
...brief, young Madame de La Tour du Pin had a lot to lose -and by the time she was 24, fleeing for her life to America, she had lost most of it. What she never lost was the sort of aristocratic attitude that kings cannot give and revolutionaries cannot take away...
...keep 'em down on the farm after they've seen Paree? No problem where Madame de La Tour du Pin was concerned. The Good Old Days did not look all that good to her. She rated Marie Antoinette high on courage, low on intelligence and zero on tact. Louis XVI resembled "some peasant shambling along behind his plough." As for her fellow aristocrats-"laughing and dancing our way to the precipice" -almost all had been "sublimely blind...
With her farm wife's ingenuity-obviously she had learned more than English from reading Robinson Crusoe as a girl-Madame de La Tour du Pin had the star-survivor qualities of a first-generation American. She found nothing to compare with the beauty of the Hudson River at West Point. She made friends with America's aristocrats, the Indians. Her monogrammed butter was in demand. But the marquis evidently was a less happy exile, eager to resume his career in French public life at the first opportunity...
After 1815, when the Memoirs end, Madame de La Tour du Pin trailed her diplomat-husband from The Hague to Turin. Even in old age, revolutionary ups and downs were the norms of their lives. When Aymar became involved in a plot to place the Due de Bordeaux on the throne in 1831, both parents spent time in prison out of sympathy, then joined him in exile...